Vegan Chocolate Cake with Tahini Cacao Icing.

Vegan Chocolate Cake with Tahini Cacao Icing.

My diet has been less than perfect lately, but when you’re running on broken sleep and now have a fiancé with a broken wing – you deserve cake.

Can I just say, massive respect to single parents.

Nate has a suspected broken scaphoid bone in his wrist that apparently doesn’t show up until about a week later so he’s in a cast until further X-rays confirm what’s going on.

Matilda has decided that this is the perfect time to be a pork chop at night times. The first night after Nates accident at soccer she woke up every 2 hours and screamed and had to be rocked back to sleep.

While I know how bad Nate feels and I know it was an accident – I’ve warned him at night time I’m probably going to want to kill him until he gets the all clear.

So Nate can’t even pick her up and it’s really hard! But if I put it into perspective, he’s still managing to help out even with one arm. He’s still there to bring me nappies, water, coffee and just listen to me whinge! I can’t even begin to imagine how much harder it would be if he wasn’t around.

Single parents, I salute you!

This recipe was adapted from a recipe shared in my colic support group for all the mummas going dairy free.

I read that this called the depression cake back in the day as the recipe came out in the depression era when butter, eggs and milk were hard to come by!